The End of the Game

Final del juego

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In almost every hotel he had stayed in his life, there was always a sealed door in the room.

Someone had come in and out of the door before, knocked on it, left it ajar, and given it a certain vitality.

And at this late hour of the night, everything behind the door is awake, awake and longing in silence.

The only real thing at this moment between day and night deceives us with unbearable lies.

It was all eerily ordinary.

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A man reads a murder plot with gusto, only to have the killer's gaze burn his neck. Is the cycle of life a hopeless repetition of suffering, or an eternal refuge for ignorance? The band performance he accidentally glimpses in the cinema is an illusion disguised as an illusion, but also a truth higher than the truth. Pure love transforms into a finger raised to the sky, ending all possibility of jealousy, tenderness, and happiness...

This volume includes famous works such as "Continuation of the Park", "A Yellow Flower" and "Night, Facing the Sky". It not only continues the bizarre and mysterious text structure and rich and transcendent imagination in Cortázar's early short stories, but also presents his deeper examination and compassion for human nature and destiny. It is a representative work of Cortázar's important transition period from his aesthetic stage to the metaphysical stage.

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★ Idols inspire respect, admiration, attachment, and, of course, deep envy. And Cortázar is one of the few writers who can evoke all of these emotions. Furthermore, he can evoke another, less common emotion: piety. —Gabriel García Márquez, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude

The End of the Game perfectly captures how Cortázar understood the dramatic transition from childhood to adulthood. —British scholar Peter Standish

★ In the face of boring and dull daily life, you might as well get lost in this pure and romantic world and love the fragile and fleeting things together.

★ 2020 classic single volume: revised translation, beautifully bound, portable and easy to read, a must-have for collection.

2020-02-01

南海出版公司

New Classic Culture

213

9787544280709